Attachment for log-cars or road-wagons.



' PATENTE D DEG.- 15, 1908.

T. D. TGY.

ATTACHMENT FORLOG CARS 0R ROAD WAGONS.

APPLICATION FILED APR.16. 1903';

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THOMAS D. TOY, OF CHERRYVALE, KANSAS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. "747,022, dated December 15, 1903.

Application filed April 16, 1903. Serial No. 152,976. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that l, THOMAS D. TOY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cherryvale, in the county of Montgomery and State of Kansas, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Attachments for Log- Oars or Road-Wagons, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is embodied in improved means or devices for holding logs or other timber on railway-cars or road-wagons,which devices may be quickly released, leaving the logs free to be unloaded.

The details of construction, arrangement, and operation of parts are as hereinafter described, reference being had to accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a side view of aloaded railway log-car provided with my improved attachments. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the frame of such car provided with said attachments.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the chain holding and releasing mechanism.

The bed-frame A of the car or wagon, as the case may be, is provided with transverse bolsters or bunks B, upon which the logs X rest. A log-binding chain 0 is attached to one of the sway-bars a a of the frame A, and its opposite end is secured by a device D, whose construction and arrangement of parts are as follows: A right-angular bracket 1 (see Fig. 3) is secured to the sway-bar ct and stands in vertical position, as indicated in Fig. 1. To the upper bifurcated end of such bracket 1 is pivoted a curved hook 2, which is adapted to assume normally the position indicated by full lines, Fig. 1, and to be thrown back into the position shown by dotted lines for releasing it from the shaft. It is held in such normal or engaged position by means of a right-angular or curved lever 3, (see Fig. 3,) which is pivoted to the bracket 1 at a point below the top of the same and provided with a loop or hook 3", which is adapted to pass over the nose of the chainhook 2. A pull-rod 4 is pivotally connected with the lower end of the longer arm of the lever 3 and extends alongside the frame, being supported slidably by a keeper 5. The

end of the rod 4, which projects at the front end of the car or wagon, is provided with a handle or loop 6 for use in operating the device I).

When the car or wagon is loaded nearly to its full capacity with logs X, the chain 0 is passed over the latter, and the hook 2, being thrown back to the position indicated by dotted lines, Fig. 1, is readily engaged with any link of the chain. The hook 2 being then thrown down to the position shown by full lines, Figs. 1 and 4c, the lever 3is manipulated to pass its hook or loop 3 over the nose of the hook 2, whereby the latter is locked so that it can only be released by a positive manipulation of the rod 4. When the load has been completed, the tension of the chain 0 will hold the hook 2 pressed outward firmly against the hook 3 of the lever 3, thus effectually preventing disengagement while the load is in transit.

The means before described secure the load X centrally of the frame A.

When the load is to be released, the operator seizes the handle 6 of the rod 4 and pulling thereon throws the lever G into the position indicated by dotted lines, Fig. 1, whereby the chain-hook 2 is released from the loop 3 and allowed to swing or fly upward into position shown by dotted lines, which releases the chain 0.

In practice I employ verticallymovable bu nk-pins E in connection with the chain-releasing devices, the said bunk-pins being slidable in keepers 9 and 9 arranged at the corners of the frame and provided with leverarms 10, by which they may be rotated to cause their elliptical and shouldered heads to descend through corresponding slots when it is desired to release the logs resting on the bunks B.

What I claim is The combination, with a car-frame, having bolsters or bunks as described, and the hind ing-chain secured to a side bar of the same, of the chain holding and releasing device,consisting of a bracket secured to the sway-bar, a curved hook pivoted to the top of the bracket, a curved lever pivoted to the bracket at a lower point and having a loop adapted to engage the nose of the hook, and a pull-rod pivotally connected with the said lever, and eX- tending forward and suitably'supported, in the manner described.

THOMAS D. TOY.

Witnesses:

RUssuLL HOWARD, G. B. SMITH. 

